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Lessee, there were a lot of questions in there...I do "dry" solo guitar/vocal shows, usually half instrumental pieces, half vocal, as a separate thing from looping (which at this point, only with Chinapainting, I'm not doing solo looping gigs otherwise right now). I started out as a musician playing tuba, did some typical piano lessons, then flirted with drums and bass before hitting on guitar, and the thing that I loved instantly were chords, chords, chords. I LOVE CHORDS. I might have stuck with the piano for this reason, but the expressiveness that Rainer mentioned drew me more towards the guitar, I believe. So I don't do solo-line gigs, or tunes. Neither my current solo stuff nor Chinapainting involve real single-note soloing, but when I do find myself in that situation, I always involve a lot of partial or complete chords in addition to solo lines. I do love horns, and vocals, and other single-note instruments, but I think it's their incredible dynamic range that makes them work for me. I think what drew me to looping was having more harmonic colors at the same time, more interesting simultaneous combinations of notes/textures. (brief plug: I'm playing a few of these currently on-topic vocal/instro solo shows in the weeks before and after the Loopfest, all in CA. October 14 in Culver City (that is, LA), October 25 and 26 in Oxnard, October 27 in Redondo Beach. Chinapainting is also playing shows right before and after the 'fest, the 18th in Oakland, 19th in San Francisco, and Sunday way out in Lodi at a winery. I'll flog the looping shows when the time gets closer, details for the solo shows are on my site. begging your indulgence..) Daryl Shawn www.swanwelder.com www.chinapaintingmusic.com > I've always wondered why someone chooses a particular instrument as > their "voice" - multitimbral vs mono timbral - and, based on my own > experience and conversations with others came to the conclusion > (assumption?) that, in a lot of cases, it has to do with how you hear > things/ organize sounds, in your head. When you think of a melody are > you hearing single notes flowing one after the other, multiple voices > running parallel, or more texturally (ie: notes stacked on top of each > other)? When you pick up your instrument do you gravitate towards > single note lines or a more chordal approach and is this based on > preference or the physicality of the instrument? Another question I > should have asked in my original post was: How many people have > switched instruments to meet their needs.